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A few questions about “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. Please help.?
Hi. I just read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. It is amazing (also freaky) but I need help understanding a few symbolic interpretations.
1. Social psychologists observe that every group develops into its own outcast or misfit, who is blamed for all sorts of group malfunctions and woes. Give an example.
2. Why is so much of the history of the lottery and the black box uncertain and vague Why does Mr. Summers have to ask a questions that he and everybody else already know the answer to?
3. The box used in the lottery is mentioned almost thirty times in the story — more than times in the phrase “the black box.” Why does the author emphasize this object and its color so strongly?
Thanks so much for all your help!
1. This one is easy, look at history and find a group or person who is blamed for all of society’s ills.
2. Tradition is the answer here. The villagers have been holding the lottery so long they no longer know anything of its history or rules.
3. Black box icon of death. Black is the color of death and dead bodies go into a box.
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